Smalltalk-80
| Author | : Glenn Krasner |
| Publisher | : Addison Wesley Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : |
Focuses on Implementation of System; Provides Documentation & Covers General Software & Engineering
Bits Of History
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History Without the Boring Bits
| Author | : Ian Crofton |
| Publisher | : Quercus |
| Total Pages | : 475 |
| Release | : 2013-09-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1623652448 |
Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other more interesting stories to tell--stories that don't usually get into the history books, but which can nevertheless bring the past vividly and excitingly to life. Imagine a history lesson that spares you the details of such seminal events as the 11th-century papal-imperial conflict, that fails to say much at all about the 1815 Congress of Vienna--and that neglects entirely to mention the world-changing moment that was the 1521 Diet of Worms. Imagine instead a book that tells you the date of the ancient Roman law that made it legal to break wind at banquets; the name of the defunct medieval pope whose putrefying corpse was subjected to the humiliation of a trial before a court of law; the identity of the priapic monarch who sired more bastards than any other king of England; and last but not least the date of the demise in London of the first goat to have circumnavigated the globe twice. Imagine a book crammed with such deliciously disposable information, and you have History without the Boring Bits. By turns bizarre, surprising, trivial, and enlightening, History without the Boring Bits offers rich pickings for the browser, and entertainment and inspiration aplenty for those who have grown weary of more conventional works of history.
The Mental Floss History of the World
| Author | : Erik Sass |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2008-10-28 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0060784776 |
History is . . . (a) more or less bunk. (b) a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken. (c) as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis. Match your answers: (1) Stephen Daedalus of James Joyce's Ulysses (2) Henry Ford (3) Arthur Schopenhauer It turns out that answer need not be bunk, nightmarish, or diseased. In the hands of mental_floss, history's most interesting bits have been handpicked and roasted to perfection. Packed with little-known stories and outrageous—but accurate—facts, you'll laugh yourself smarter on this joyride through 60,000 years of human civilization. Remember: just because it's true, doesn't mean it's boring!
Off With Their Heads!
| Author | : Martin Oliver |
| Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2011-11-20 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1780550499 |
Off With Their Heads! is the exciting history of Britain in easy to digest, bite-sized chunks, which is sure to inspire a love of history that will last a lifetime.
Bits and Pieces
| Author | : Kenneth B. McAlpine |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0190496096 |
Bits and Pieces tells the story of chiptune, a style of lo-fi electronic music that emerged from the first generation of video game consoles and home computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through ingenuity and invention, musicians and programmers developed code that enabled the limited hardware of those early 8-bit machines to perform musical feats that they were never designed to achieve. In time, that combination of hardware and creative code came to define a unique 8-bit sound that imprinted itself on a generation of gamers. For a new generation of musicians, this music has currency through the chipscene, a vibrant musical subculture that repurposes obsolete gaming hardware. It's performative: raw and edgy, loaded with authenticity and driven by a strong DIY ethic. It's more punk than Pac-Man, and yet, it's part of that same story of ingenuity and invention; 8-bit hardware is no longer a retired gaming console, but a quirky and characterful musical instrument. Taking these consoles to the stage, musicians fuse 8-bit sounds with other musical styles - drum'n'bass, jungle, techno and house - to create a unique contemporary sound. Analyzing musical structures and technological methods used with chiptune, Bits and Pieces traces the simple beeps of the earliest arcade games, through the murky shadows of the digital underground, to global festivals and movie soundtracks.
History's Naughty Bits
| Author | : Karen Dolby |
| Publisher | : Michael O'Mara |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013-09-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781782430698 |
History's Naughty Bits contains stories that would curl the hair of the most liberal-minded and sets the record straight with true stories of debauchery and titillation from Ancient history to the twentieth century.
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
| Author | : Emma Marriott |
| Publisher | : Michael O'Mara Books |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2012-09-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1843179296 |
Here's your chance to introduce yourself to the full spectrum of world history.
The Information
| Author | : James Gleick |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 398 |
| Release | : 2011-03-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0307379574 |
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Very Bloody History of Britain
| Author | : John Farman |
| Publisher | : Random House (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2001-08 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 9780099417774 |
A factually accurate and fabulously funny look at the history of Britain from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War. You’ve never had a history lesson like it!
Two Bits
| Author | : Christopher M. Kelty |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2008-06-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780822342649 |
In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and practices that have transformed not only software but also music, film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of copyright law. Kelty explains how these specific practices have reoriented the relations of power around the creation, dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge. He also makes an important contribution to discussions of public spheres and social imaginaries by demonstrating how Free Software is a “recursive public”—a public organized around the ability to build, modify, and maintain the very infrastructure that gives it life in the first place. Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet healthcare start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies and the moral vision that bind together hackers, geeks, lawyers, and other Free Software advocates. In each case, he shows how their practices and way of life include not only the sharing of software source code but also ways of conceptualizing openness, writing copyright licenses, coordinating collaboration, and proselytizing. By exploring in detail how these practices came together as the Free Software movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, Kelty also considers how it is possible to understand the new movements emerging from Free Software: projects such as Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that creates copyright licenses, and Connexions, a project to create an online scholarly textbook commons.
